Exhibition and Symposium at California College of the Arts

Exhibition: September 28 - December 22, 2017

Designing Material Innovation exhibits five full-scale architectural prototypes and pavilions that exemplify new approaches to material, fabrication, and design. Created through collaborations between architects and industry partners, these works combine technological innovation in materials research and fabrication with aesthetic and ethical approaches to form and appearance.

Clastic Order (T+E+A+M - Thom Moran, Ellie Abrons, Adam Fure, Meredith Miller / University of Michigan): a new architectural order made of plastiglomerate, an agglomerate of rock with reprocessed waste plastics.

Confetti Urbanism (Clark Thenhaus / Endemic / CCA): The exhibition design for Designing Material Innovation displays the five prototypes in the context of CCA's 73,000 sf Back Lot, a mixed-use space for production, display, and social life.